Weekend Report: Transformers 4 Totally Sucked

Got a belated birthday present from Gordon.  He got me TF Generations Whirl and Game of Throne's Brienne's autograph.  Thanks Gordon.

Whirl and Brienne.

Food this weekend ->
Judy and Gordon had a special lunch for their new baby, Nathan.

Nathan at 1-Month.

We ate at the New Hong Shing Restaurant by Frank's Catering.  Food was good, but I didn't get to snap a picture of everything.  Our table was missing the lazy-susan, so we manually passed the dishes around.  The dishes included fish maw soup,

Fish Maw Soup.

Lobster,

Ginger and Green Onion Lobster.

Bird's Nest

Bird's Nest with Seafood.

When we ordered drinks, they gave us some cool glass bottles of Ginger Ale and Coke Zero!  Didn't know Coke Zero came in a small glass bottle.

Coke Zero and Ginger Ale Bottles.

Useless Gaming News:
Gavin is in town until Canada Day.  We played some games on my Wii U: Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario Bros U.  Gavin got me Super Mario Bros U as my Christmas Present.

Super Mario Bros U.

We also played some multi-player Magic: the Gathering.  I lost every game because I'm always a threat

3-Player M:tG.

Useless Transformers News:
Took the afternoon off on Friday to go watch Transformers 4 with Julie.  The movie was soooo bad!  The worst one of all the Transformer movies.  This coming from a huge Transformers fan.
WARNING: Some minor spoilers ahead.
Good:
- Walburg was good
- beginning was good and shocking (Ratchet scene, but is he really dead?)
- using the "spark" idea from Beast Wars
- the elevator guy's martial arts was neat
Bad:
- some scenes took too long
- expected scenes were cut ("I'll go cause a diversion" but there was no diversion scene!)
- by midway point of the movie, it felt like they were just setting up for TF5 (ie creators...)
- new Vehicons were stupid.  And because of how they transform, how are they going to sell the toys?
- Grimlock never talked.  I don't think he was even introduced!
- no extra scene after movie credits
- felt like a car commercial.  Every other scene felt like the people were just getting in and out of a different car.
- would have made more sense if Bumblebee wasn't in the movie
- early in the movie, I kept thinking "What is Dr. Frasier Crane doing!?!"
Ugly:
- how did they know the ramp was there when they drove out of the building?  Scene missing to explain this?
- stupid name of the new metal "Transformium"
- how the Dinobots were used and introduced was stupid
- lots of slowing down of scenes to emphasize the 3D effect.  It wasn't needed (We watched it in 2D so it looked even more exaggerated.)
- everything exploded into flames, and sometimes it wasn't needed (ie before battle with Prime, Lockout jumped down and shooting the crossway bridge for no reason).
- What Prime did during the final battle... G1 Prime would NEVER do that.  It's not his character!
- Primes speech at the end, and that he suddenly has a the ability *SPOILER* to fly into space without using his Trailer/Jet Pack.